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Throughout the Watergate saga, she sees events in terms of her husband: whether he loses weight and has black circles under his eyes, or is cheerful and laughing. She has no clue about daily infighting at the White House...
Rivaling those grim incidents in drama-and gruesome detail-was the continuing saga of Dutch Industrialist Tiede Herrema, 54, who was abducted near Limerick earlier this month by two I.R.A. extremists (TIME, Oct. 20). Since then, Herrema and his kidnapers have been the target of the biggest man hunt in recent Irish history. The Dublin government has steadfastly refused to meet the desperadoes' demand that three convicted Irish terrorists be released from prison. Kidnaper Eddie Gallagher, 27, and his woman companion, reported to be Marian Coyle, 19, sent police a tape-recorded message by Herrema, who said...
...such attention to personal and military detail. His facts, speedily and scrupulously assembled, make a strong, if arguable case for the American response. To Rowan, amid all the ambivalent U.S. op erations overseas, the recovery of the Mayaguez now appears to be an odd but valid entry in the saga of victory...
...days of the Viet Nam War, L.B.J. craved some link with the men fighting in the field. He elevated his one World War II adventure into a saga of bravery. He told about "the Japanese ace" who relentlessly attacked the bomber on which Johnson was flying as an observer, as if the enemy pilot knew Johnson was aboard and might someday be President. In Manila in 1966, Johnson jetted secretly and dramatically to Viet Nam to stand in front of the troops assembled at Cam Ranh Bay. En route he talked about how he did not have to demonstrate...
...lives. The stop-and-start chapters abort their growth and development; some family members are simply dropped or disappear inexplicably for hundreds of pages. Though they struggle with life's standard challenges and disappointments, the stolid Neumillers are rarely compelling enough to carry the massive burden of their saga...